“The Person Who Sows A Single Beautiful Thought In The Mind Of Another Renders The World A Greater Service Than That Rendered By All the Fault Finders Combined.”–Unknown

The key to managing people is to understand them. That key is also true for managing employees under 30. While “Baby Boomers (Age 46-64), still rule the workplace, and set the rules, that workplace will only thrive if it gives its employees what they need. And simply put, those under 30 think and learn diferently than those that set the rules. And those in “Generation Y” (Ages 10-29) want and need different things, as well.

I teach collegiate business courses and occasionally bring in a successful entrepreneur to share tips on how he or she obtained success. I asked one brash young gentleman, who became a millionaire in his 20s, to share his top two tips with the class. His clarity in that moment showed me why he is such an outstanding success in business.

Even the most optimistic and successful of my friends gets down once in awhile.  One of these friends asked me one day, “I’m so down right now about my life.  What should I do.”  Now this was someone who has accomplished so much and is considered a “star” in my local community. I thought about a
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The Missing Ingredient:  Enthusiasm! Watch extremely successful individuals in any endeavor and look for this common denominator:  Enthusiasm! Whether it be the Little Leaguer that tears up the league or the impassioned instructor you want to go to class to see, one key difference between successful people and others is their level of enthusiasm in
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I hate that slogan, “There’s No ‘I’ in Team.”  Seriously, if you are a member of a team, then true leadership is about modeling and showing the rest of the team the path to success.  You have to lead.  You have to play your part.  You are accountable.  And you are the only person whose
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I sometimes love it when people doubt me. It motivates me to prove those people wrong. And I feel sorry for naysayers in general, because they just can’t see the promise that exists in every downturn.

I recently bought a real estate company with my then 19 year old son, Brennan. About 80% of the people look at us as though we did have not a clue as to what we were doing. “A real estate company in this market? Are you nuts?” As my buddy John says, “They look at me like I have crabs coming out of my ears.” But, I am very confident in this venture over the long haul.

People try so hard to look and sound smart. They use big words and complex sentence structure. They speak of “paradigms”, quote “what the literature says” and write massive tomes to try to impress. But if you want to succeed in life, politics or business the secret is to keep it simple. People need clarity
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You are standing or sitting on a round planet. The planet is orbiting about the sun and has been in that stable orbit for about 4.5 billion years. The planet you are on is orbiting at approximately 93 million miles from the sun, the perfect distance so it is not too hot or too cold
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I am compelled to write this article about the power of optimism given our current economic climate and the pervasive insecurity I feel from my co-workers in my current work environment. I recently gave a keynote speech to a group of college employees in Seattle and felt a lack of optimism that would be unhealthy
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